CES never ceases to amaze with thousands of vendors across the technology spectrum. With exhibits and demonstrations ranging from components and silicon to home conveniences and concept cars, 2018 was no exception. The consumer event also acted as a busy shadow conference on emerging enterprise and carrier technologies.

The company continues to bet on the autonomous vehicle, in tune with its largest acquisition to date, Mobileye. The pair travel toward autonomous driving with new vehicle architectures, SoCs, mapping and machine-learning algorithms.

2017 proved to be a transformative year for the Internet of Things, with new product categories, accelerating standardization efforts, widespread adoption in both horizontal and vertical use cases, and a multitude of vendor partnerships aimed at bridging the operating technology/IT divide.

Mapping and location-based service provider HERE Technologies continues to bet heavily on the automotive industry, this time extending outside of its own company walls and bringing in OTA software via the acquisition of ATS Advanced Telematic Systems for an undisclosed amount.

Nexar has brought ADAS capabilities onto the road through a device that nearly every driver has â a smartphone. Smartphones contains underlying technologies such as cameras, GPUs, inertial measurement units and accelerometers that enable various mobile applications such as navigation.